Arts in Education News & Events
2007-08 Guest Lecturers in the HGSE Arts in Education Program
With the exception of Jessica Hoffmann Davis’s Askwith Education Forum presentation on April 24, 2008, the following lectures are open only to students in the AIE program. Thank you for your understanding.
LeDerick, poet and lecturer
December 6, 2007
Inspirational lecturer/rapper LeDerick Horne, in town to speak to Boston school children, tells the story of his emergence as a poet and lecturer (from his difficult beginnings in a language-based learning disability) in rhyme, anecdote, and question-answer format. Co-sponsored by Very Special Arts of Massachusetts.
Tiziana Filippini, Reggio Emilia Pedagogista
December 10, 2007
Tiziana Filippini, pedagogista at the Diana school in Reggio Emilia, Italy, and collaborator on the Project Zero Making Learning Visible project, speaks to AIE students and invited guests about her experience in the renowned Reggio Emilia schools.
Amanda Lichtenstein (Ed.M.’05) and Cynthia Weiss, co-editors, AIMprint: New Relationships in the Arts and Learning
March 3, 2008
Community art educators Amanda Lichtenstein (AIE graduate, 2005) and Cynthia Weiss discuss their recently published book and the work that inspired it at the Center for Community Arts Partnershps at Columbia College in Chicago.
Michael Armstrong, children’s art educator
March 17, 2008
Michael Armstrong, author of Closely Observed Children and Children Writing Stories, discusses selected drawings by children from the days of the Spanish Civil War that have been collected in Anthony L. Geist and Peter N. Carroll’s book, They Still Draw Pictures: Children's Art in Wartime from the Spanish Civil War to Kosovo.
Eric Booth, founding editor, Teaching Artist Journal
April 7, 2008
Eric Booth, author of The Everyday Work of Art: Awakening the Extraordinary in Your Daily Life, faculty member at the Kennedy Center, and director of the mentoring program at the Juilliard School, discusses arts learning, advocacy, and research with AIE students.
Dick Deasy, Arts Education Partnership director
April 9, 2008
Dick Deasy, director of the Arts Education Partnership (publisher of Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development and Champions of Change: The Impact of the Arts on Learning), pays his annual visit to the HGSE Arts in Education program to expound on the AEP’s recent research on policy implications for arts education programs in the United States.
Jessica Hoffmann Davis, author, Why Our Schools Need the Arts
Thursday, April 24, 5:00 p.m., Askwith Lecture Hall, Longfellow Hall, HGSE campus
(Offered by the HGSE Askwith Education Forum.)
Jessica Hoffmann Davis, founding former director of the HGSE Arts in Education program and author of Framing Education as Art: The Octopus Has a Good Day, discusses her new book, Why Our Schools Need the Arts. (Note: AIE alumni should stay tuned for an invitation to a pre-lecture reception with Jessica, current AIE students, and members of the AIE Advisory Council.)
Events: Spring Semester 2007
Thursday, February 22, 1:00-2:30 pm
Tiziana Filippini
Gutman Conference Center
Tiziana Filippini, pedagogista at the Diana school in Reggio Emilia, and collaborator on the Project Zero Making Learning Visible project, speaks to AIE students and invited guests about her experience in the renowned Reggio Emilia schools.
Thursday March 1, 2007, 4:00-6:00 pm
"Little Talentum" Children's Book Series
Gutman Conference Center
A presentation by the HGSE '04 graduates who have created a series of interdisciplinary children's books, including cofounders Valeria Fontanals, Amaya Aboitiz, and AIE graduate Cristina Garcia-Colina. For information, see http://www.littletalentum.com.
Thursday March 1, 7:00-9:00 pm
AIE Program Performances
Conroy Commons, Longfellow Hall
Current students in the HGSE Arts in Education Program perform music, theater, poetry, and more in a cabaret-style cafe setting. Light refreshments are served! (See the “students” page of this website for a full description.)
Tuesday, March 20, 4:00 p.m.
Project Zero classroom
Tom Hansell, documentary filmmaker and media-arts teacher from Appalshop, a multi-disciplinary arts and education center in Whitesburg, Kentucky, speaks to current AIE students and Project Zero researchers about his work with Appalachian youth, and about the creation of such films as Coal Bucket Outlaw and Banjo Pickin’ Girl.
Wednesday, April 4, 7:00—9:00 p.m.
AIE Alumni Career Panel
Alumni representatives from past AIE cohorts discuss their adventures in the job market with current students who are looking for positions in museums, nonprofits, theater education departments, independent and public schools, research organizations, universities, and the like.
Tuesday, April 10, 4:00 p.m.
Pilita Danesh and Jeff Hopkins
Pilita Danesh and Jeff Hopkins, AIE alumni from the class of 2005, present their work on the Global Learning Village, a project they’re creating for the Public Education Foundation, where Pilita serves as director of new media and technology. (Open to current AIE students and invited guests.)
Thursday, April 17, 1:00 p.m.
Dick Deasy
Dick Deasy, executive director of the Arts Education Partnership, addresses the AIE class on the results of AEP’s research on arts education in the U.S. (Open to current AIE students and invited guests.)
Thursday, April 26—Saturday, April 28
Kurt Wootton
Kurt Wootton, director of the ArtsLiteracy Project at Brown University, discusses innovative approaches to literacy development through the arts in work with youth in Providence, Rhode Island, and offers a workshop to AIE students. Cosponsored by the Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard. (Open to current AIE students and invited guests.)
April 27 – May 11
AIE Spring Exhibit
Gutman Library reading room
A show of art works by current students in the HGSE Arts in Education Program.
Fall Semester Events 2006
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Open Roads Photography Exhibit and Reception
HGSE students and alumni are invited to join Open Roads founding director (and HGSE graduate) Trevor Hall and HGSE Arts in Education Program alumna Erin Mishkin at this reception for the teenaged photographers whose work will be on display in the third floor Longfellow hallway for the rest of the semester. For more information about Open Roads, a five-week summer program that combines leadership training with an immersion in documentary storytelling, visit www.openroads.org.
Monday, November 20, 2006
Hilary Wallis - Plan USA - Uganda
Painter and international development worker Hilary Wallis will speak (and show a 30-minute documentary) about her recent work as artist and teacher in a Ugandan village for Plan USA - "a world-wide non-profit organization dedicated to child-centered development and the well-being, rights, and interests of children."
For more information, visit:
www.hilarywallis.net/usite/hilarywallis_enuk
www.planusa.org/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/86565
Monday, November 13, 2006
CORITA
Fogg Museum of Art, Quincy Street, Cambridge
Sasha Carrera, AIE'00, director of the Corita
Art Center in LA, gives a walking/talking tour of "Dissent!"
--the group show of prints that features several pieces by Corita, a graphic
artist (best known for her paintings on the gas tanks near UMass Boston)
whose prints appear in Gutman Library.
American Repertory Theatre (Loeb Experimental Stage), 64 Brattle Street,
Cambridge
Irene O'Garden, "Little Heart"
A staged reading of the new biographical play about Corita.
AIE News
Steve
Seidel Named Bauman and Bryant Chair in Arts in Education
Read a biography of Professor
Seidel from the Project
Zero site.
November 28, 2005--Harvard Graduate School of Education Dean Kathleen McCartney announced today that Steve Seidel will now hold the Bauman and Bryant Chair in Arts in Education. Seidel is the director of both HGSE's Arts in Education Program and Project Zero. Read full press release.
John Landrum Bryant Lecture/Performance Series
Supported by the Bauman Foundation
The lecture/performance series features individuals whose expertise is relevant to select topics from within the AIE core courses. While attendance is required of AIE students, the lectures/performances are open to the public. There is no fee, and no registration is required. Unless otherwise noted, all lectures in the current season will be held in Larsen Hall G-08, Appian Way, Cambridge on Tuesdays at 1:00 p.m.
View the John Landrum Bryant Lecture/Performance Series from the following past academic years:
WGBH Forum Network
To watch highlights of the 2004-05 series (and several highlights of
years gone by) on the WGBH Forum Network, visit http://forum.wgbh.org/wgbh/.
Framing
Education as Art: The Octopus Has a Good Day
Jessica Hoffmann Davis, former director, AIE
[Note: If you would like to contact Jessica about her new book, feel free
to send her an email at JDavis3891@aol.com.]
What
Does Good Work Look Like?
Ron Berger, educator, author
Inventing
Kindergarten
Norman Brosterman, historian
Telling
Tales: Reading with Michael Armstrong
Michael Armstrong, author
Arts
and Schools: Reconciling Opposites
Dick Deasy, director, Arts Education Partnership Thanks for your interest!
Director's Message
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Steve Seidel |
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